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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Katastarion in Greece


Earthquake location 37.6302S, 20.1697WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Katastarion in Greece. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/11/18 / 2018-11-05 17:44:00 / November 5, 2018 @ 5:44 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:44:00 / 6:44 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hqxi. Id of event: us1000hqxi. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 20.1697 East, latitude 37.6302 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Zákynthos (c. 11 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Argostólion (c. 9 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Argostólion, Zákynthos.

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days seventy-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 57 km WSW of Katastarion, Greece.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.1697° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.6302° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km WSW of Katastarion, Greece Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-05 17:44:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-12 20:34:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 298 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.099 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 174 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000hqxi Id of event.
Event Code 1000hqxi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hqxi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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